10, 20 and 40 Cubic Yard
Dumpster Rental in Saint-Philippe

Not for the dumpster itself, if it sits entirely on your land. We word it carefully because the conclusion comes from an absence of provision: the word “conteneur” appears neither in by-law 325 on nuisances, nor in by-law 1008-00 RIP on traffic, nor in fee by-law 2016, and by-law 504 on planning administration uses it only for a “shelter or enclosure for a container” and a “semi-buried container” — permanent structures. The list of certificates of authorization in its section 34 is closed and provides for none covering a temporary placement. The job site, however, often does need a permit: any “major renovation” is subject to one, which includes work “which, within the same calendar year, represents a cost greater than $5,000”, a change of exterior cladding colour, or “finishing a basement”. In doubt? Planning and sustainable development department, 450 659-7701, extension 391 — processing can take up to 30 days.

No. Section 48 of by-law 1008-00 RIP prohibits “throwing, placing or dropping […] an object on a sidewalk, a shoulder, a public road, a public place or a bike path”, on pain of a $50 to $75 fine plus costs, and by-law 325 prohibits “installing any construction or any other development, other than floral landscaping, in the street right-of-way” (s. 8.3.1). No Saint-Philippe text provides for a temporary public-domain occupancy permit for a dumpster. The truck does get a window — and it is timed: delivery of goods must “be carried out within a maximum period of 30 minutes”, the vehicle “parked parallel to the roadway” and the unloading done “without interruption” (s. 34). The dumpster itself goes on private land.

It is the local question here, and the urban plan answers part of it. It describes a town bordered by Highways 15 and 30 and crossed by three collector roads — provincial Route 217 (Édouard-VII), Montée Monette and Chemin Sanguinet — with everything else being “local and rural streets”. It then writes that “truck traffic is regulated, including restricted routes (Montée Monette), prohibited routes (Route 217, between the municipal boundary and Montée Monette) and prohibited local routes, which include many local and rural streets”. The plan is not the regulatory source of those restrictions — the signage on the ground and the provincial transport department set them. That is exactly why we plan the access route before the order. Useful on the rangs and montées: by-law 325 already requires the abutting owner to leave 4.5 m of vertical clearance between the roadway and the branches (s. 8.4.1).

By-law 325 names “the delivery of materials” in the very same section as construction, alteration, repair and demolition work, and prohibits all of it between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. (s. 3.2.7). Two other sections frame noise: a sound device may not disturb the neighbourhood between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. (s. 3.2.5), nor “before 9 a.m. on Saturday, Sunday, a legal holiday or a public holiday” (s. 3.2.6). Those sections do not cover exactly the same thing, and we would rather not decide in the town's place: for an early weekend delivery, we agree on the hour together at 514 708-2424.

For a job site, no. The service is “accessible by appointment only”, offered “to residents only”, with “proof of residence […] required when you register at the reception counter”. Above all, its official sheet lists asphalt shingle, concrete, brick, stone, rock and soil among the refused materials — exactly what fills our four single-material dumpsters — along with branches, logs and stumps. The town itself explains that it books appointments “to make sure there is enough room in our containers”: no volume is guaranteed in advance. Add that the garbage bin refuses asphalt and concrete, soil, rock, sand and peat, asphalt shingle and treated wood, and that the bulky waste collection runs only once a month while excluding construction material, and the arithmetic is quick: a 10 yard box holds 7.6 m³, a 20 yard 15.3 m³, a 40 yard 30.6 m³.

No, and the town says so plainly: “Only residential materials are accepted, no commercial or industrial drop-off is permitted”, while the official sheet lists “all materials coming from businesses and industry” among refused materials. Dropping off after hours also carries fines that “range from $100 to $4,000, depending on the nature of the offence”, under by-law 325. Two further obligations bear on the haul itself inside the town limits, and they are aimed at us, not at you: the load must not travel “in a vehicle that is not closed or not covered by a securely fastened tarp” — that is, it must be tarped (by-law 325, s. 8.2.2) — and a dirtied roadway must be cleaned within two hours, failing which the town cleans it “at the owner's expense” (by-law 1008-00 RIP, s. 47).

That is the Saint-Philippe winter constraint, and it lasts six and a half months. Zoning by-law 501 allows a temporary car shelter “between October 15 of one year and April 30 of the following year”, one per lot, “on a lane”, at most 40 m² and 3 m high, 0.6 m from any lot line, 2 m from a sidewalk or 3.5 m from the pavement edge, and 1.5 m from a fire hydrant (s. 302): it takes the dumpster's very spot. The street is no fallback — parking there is prohibited between midnight and 7 a.m. from December 1 to April 1 (by-law 1008-00 RIP, s. 31) and an object never belongs there (s. 48). And snow travels both ways: you may not throw yours onto public property (by-law 325, s. 6.2.1), but “those responsible for clearing the streets […] may throw, place or dump snow on sidewalks and on lots” (s. 6.3.2). So we settle the spot and the pickup date together; the town's snow line, at 450 659-0204, extension 333, is updated every day from 5 p.m.

Every one of our dumpsters is delivered with the PROTEC-O-SOL system, built-in planks that spread the load and protect the surface. Nothing to supply, nothing extra to pay. In Saint-Philippe the question plays out differently from one sector to the next, because the urban plan recognizes four building typologies there: the historic core, where buildings sit “generally close to the street and to the front lot line” on a grid of montées and rangs; the mobile-home neighbourhoods, with resubdivided lots “about 30 feet wide”; the îlots déstructurés, where buildings are “set back from the street” on areas “larger than in serviced sectors”; and the recent projects, with “narrower” side yards and an organic street grid. Tell us which one you are in and our drivers arrive with the right manoeuvre. The house tip, for full protection: four flattened cardboard boxes, or a thin sheet of plywood, on the chosen spot before the truck arrives.